Xbox One performance catching up to PS4, Oddworld creator says

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Oddworld Inhabitants co-founder Lorne Lanning believes the performance gap between Xbox One and PS4 will be negligible within a few years.

Lanning told Xbox Achievements that he often heard developers complaining that it took "twice as long" to get assets onto Xbox One as PS4 in the early days of new-gen development.

However, Microsoft has worked quickly to improve its development tools.

"We're hearing and seeing that that curve is getting closer," Lanning said. "I think they've been improving the toolset really fast, improving the development environment and shaving that curve down... I think they're getting comparable."

"You know, if you want to run at 1080p, Battlefield, I'm not exactly sure how that's going to tax the system at that higher end, but I'm sure in couple of years it won't be a problem. We're early."

Oddworld Inhabitants is working on Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty for PlayStation 4. If the game is accepted into the ID@Xbox self-publishing program, Lanning doesn't expect many graphical differences between the two versions.

"I have to say, the PlayStation 4 has been pretty amazing and that's where we've been spending a lot of our time," he continued. "But I don't see a huge gap like there used to be. There used to be a significant gap."

Posted: Apr 03, 2014 12:52 pm
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/457381/xbox-one-performance-catching-up-to-ps4-oddworld-creator-says/

Comments

MaggardoPosted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

I gotta agree with him, I didn't think the gap between the two consoles was that big either.

lolohnoeszszPosted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

Nemonium PS4 Will always be ahead in my opinion

in sales yes. in terms of quality no.

OcorinaPosted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

Oi I hope that it catches up sooner than later.

TravitorPosted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

Nemonium PS4 Will always be ahead in my opinion

not a chance. PS4 is not implementing community feedback, but xbox is.

MajPosted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

PS4 Will always be ahead in my opinion

TTUPosted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

HDITeRRoRiZeI
TTU
HDITeRRoRiZeI Why do people not believe others when they say that the console is just as good if not more powerfull? The data is right there given by MS themselves. I mean DX12 and the rest of it will be huge advances. I can bet on it.

If you're saying that a console is just as good as a gaming PC, you're dead wrong. If you're saying the Xbox One is just as good as the PS4, who knows? We have to wait until both consoles are used to their capacity and at maximum optimization

No but it would be true If I said that the console were much more efficient than a PC, because they are and by quite a bit. You know the Xbox One can hold up to 48GB of textures when using Tiled Resources. That's a very surprising figure. Obviously I don't think we need that much power for the games we have today. But who knows.

Consoles are definitely more efficient than a PC, due to the fact that PC's have so many background programs to run. If a PC was build to run JUST games, then wouldn't it be a gaming console? haha - The consoles are becoming bigger and better, but so is everything else. I'm glad DX12 made it's way to the Xbox One

TehHamburgerPosted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

Im going to laugh at the first ps4 fanboy who comments about oddworld supporting xbox. Watch it'll happen. because they wont read about how their releasing on ps4 and their game hasnt even been accepted yet. theyll just see what oddworld stated and cry wolf.

OasisPosted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

HDITeRRoRiZeI
TTU
HDITeRRoRiZeI Why do people not believe others when they say that the console is just as good if not more powerfull? The data is right there given by MS themselves. I mean DX12 and the rest of it will be huge advances. I can bet on it.

If you're saying that a console is just as good as a gaming PC, you're dead wrong. If you're saying the Xbox One is just as good as the PS4, who knows? We have to wait until both consoles are used to their capacity and at maximum optimization

No but it would be true If I said that the console were much more efficient than a PC, because they are and by quite a bit. You know the Xbox One can hold up to 48GB of textures when using Tiled Resources. That's a very surprising figure. Obviously I don't think we need that much power for the games we have today. But who knows.

Good to see someone else on here that knows their stuff. I predict a huge shift once DX12 is implemented.

Evo8Posted: Thu. Apr 03, 2014

Everyone knew they would eventually catch them.